Self-sufficiency & Independence
Living with maximum autonomy.
When people with disabilities live, work, and play more independently, each person thrives, and when more citizens thrive, the community benefits from lower health costs and higher economic participation and resiliency of its citizens.
Challenges:
People with disabilities are more likely to be isolated and isolation is correlated with poor health. Working-age adults with disabilities remain employed at less than half the rate of people without disabilities and are twice as likely to live in poverty.
Solutions:
Financial resources and literacy. Click through to more info like:
People with disabilities learn about financial skills, and programs
available to assist, financing, saving, and working. GS’s online
classes.
Adaptive sports, recreation, and leisure activities. Learning and participating in sports, recreational, and leisure activities are correlated with decreased feelings of isolation and increased self- sufficiency, and ability to cope.
GS upcoming in-person activities
GS online classes
Knowing your rights. Learn how to assert rights to fair housing, equal employment, and equal access to public accommodations such as healthcare.
GS’s past info on rights under the ADA
Classes
Gathering Strength Solutions:
- Physically accessible, culturally competent healthcare services.
- Click to see NEW REGULATIONS requiring accessible medical
diagnostic equipment. (clickable to one of our interior pages on
increasing accessible healthcare services) - Click through includes new regs on accessible medical
diagnostic equipment. - Click through should include info on SCI survivors of
violence - Inclusive health-promoting physical activity
- Existing info about our classes and CFW
- People with disabilities empowered with knowledge.
- Disability-led collaborations with institutions
- Existing Info about our work with Frazier/CFW
- Click through include info on SCI survivors of violence (?)